Daniel Comboni
Comboni Missionaries
Institutional area
Other links
Newsletter
Visit of Fr. John Baptist to Mozambique
Friday, February 5, 2016
The Secretary General of Formation (SGF) Fr. John Baptist Keraryo Opargiw paid an official visit to Mozambique from January 10th to 20th, 2016. The visit was short but very intense. In those few days, Fr. John Baptist managed to visit the communities of Maputo, Matola, Nampula Novitiate, Nampula Pre-postulancy, Nampula-Mwahivire, Carapira, Namapa, Anchilo and Alua. In the picture from left: Fr. José Júlio Martins Marques, Fr. John Baptist Keraryo Opargiw, and Fr. Leonardo Leandro Araya.
Fr. José Júlio Martins Marques,
and Fr. José Luis Rodríguez López,
provincial superior of Mozambique.
In his report to the Provincial Council of Mozambique the SGF thanks the Provincial Superior, Fr. José Luis Rodríguez López, and all the confreres for their hospitality and friendship. The SGF further addresses himself to the confreres engaged in vocations promotion and formation ministry, thanking them for their dedicated service and encouraging them to improve the quality of their service through specific preparation for formators, good selection of candidates and assiduous vocational discernment and accompaniment.
Mozambique is at present experiencing a vocations boom (11 pre-postulants, 23 postulants, 15 novices, 3 scholastics) and this is indeed an invitation and a challenge for us as Institute to invest well in terms of competent personnel and adequate infra-structure.
The chapel of the novitiate in Nampula.